Microsoft’s Streets & Trips 2002 software is a consumer package that loads onto virtually any desktop PC. It provides detailed and comprehensive information on routes, points of interest, restaurants and lodging, expected travel times -- with gas costs incorporated, so you know how much the trip will cost -- even updates on construction areas along the way. These maps can be printed, in multiple formats, directly from the desktop. Streets & Trips 2002 also includes Pocket Streets, an extension that runs on Pocket PC handheld devices. This allows travelers to carry far more information on a device that takes up less space than a stack of maps and doesn’t require folding.

Streets & Trips incorporates detailed mapping of more than 6.4 million miles of local, city, state and highway roads in the United States and Canada -- representing more than 35,000 US zip codes and over 700,000 Canadian postal codes. Streets & Trips 2002 supports GPS, meaning users can pinpoint their location anywhere in the United States and Canada. The built-in Web interface enables two other key functions. The features and functions in Streets & Trips are not limited to the United States and Canada. European travelers get the same information in a sister product called Auto Route 2002 .